Category Archives: Health Disparities

Trifecta talk at MSU College of Communications Arts and Sciences

I gave a talk early this month at Trifecta Technology and Innovation for Health, at MSU’s College of Communications Arts and Sciences about some of the research going on with my collaborators there. I presented ongoing research on online health information seeking behavior (HISB) that examines various online channels (emailing providers, talking about health in chat… Read More »

Pang Vang published oral health paper in UC Merced Undergrad Research Journal

Pang Vang, has recently published a paper based off of data gathered by the Social Determinants of Health Lab.  Her paper, published in the UC Merced Undergraduate Research Journal was titled The Importance of Advocating for Oral Health Education Programs on College Campuses:  Original Research on the Systematic Examination of Oral Health Beliefs among College Student Minorities. Pang… Read More »

Kesia Garibay wins SACNAS Public Health Award for Oral Health Poster

Undergraduate student Kesia Garibay, who was a research assistant for the Social Determinants of Health Lab last academic year and summer 2016 was the recipient of an award for the poster Oral Health Risks Among UC Merced Students (authors: Garibay K, Pena E, Vang P, Marines M, De Guzman K, Gonzalez M.) at the October… Read More »

Article on Latino online Health Information Seeking Behavior published in JMIR

We have recently had an article published in the Journal of Medical Internet Research (JMIR). The team of researchers included faculty at UC Merced, Cal State Stanislaus, and Michigan State University. Online Health Information-Seeking Behavior and Confidence in Filling Out Online Forms Among Latinos: A Cross-Sectional Analysis of the California Health Interview Survey, 2011-2012 Background:… Read More »